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Artist Advisers

Our Artist Advisers are a crucial element to our new approach to funding, making our processes more open and inclusive, and increasing the role of artists across our work.

They are individuals with the skills and expertise to contribute to identifying talent, and supporting selection and decision making processes. With their specific art form and discipline knowledge, they represent our ears and eyes across the UK providing a current perspective on artists, artistic groups and arts organisations, and helping us to deepen our impact. They are a key part of our push for greater openness, increased national reach and broadening of our taste. Over the next year, we will continue to grow this pool which speaks to the diversity of practice, place and people we support.

In selecting our Artist Advisers we prioritise independent artists, curators and producers who work outside institutional contexts and are largely beyond our funding focus on the first 10 years of establishing a professional practice. We look for people who are actively engaged in wider debates and contexts around their practice.

Our initial appointments focused on those who already had a connection to our work to support us with piloting this new way of working. However, to grow the pool of Artist Advisers we are keen to move beyond those we know to fill the gaps and ensure we achieve what we have set out to do over the coming years.

If you would like to be considered as an Artist Adviser, please email Jon Opie. We expect to announce a further set of Artist Advisers in summer 2019.

What they do

Provide specific art form and discipline expertise;

Participate in assessing, shortlisting and panel decision making across our work;

Being an Artist Adviser is an honorary role. However in line with Our Principles we will pay them on a case by case basis for their participation in assessment, shortlisting and panel decision making work. Artist Advisers do not have privileged access to our funding and do not receive specialist application advice. We also operate a conflict of interest policy for Artist Advisers.